ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around supermassive black holes, forming galaxies.

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3). The upper part shows a region where the Palomar 5 star cluster and its tidal tails are observed (DESI Legacy Imaging ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...